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Brainfood: Diverse ecologists, Wild vs cultivated, Ecosystem services, Indigenous people, Mixtures, On-farm trees, Monitoring protected areas, Social media & protected areas, Wild harvesting, Land sparing vs sharing, Agroecology & plant health, Wild vs cultivated

Agricultural Biodiversity

Does long-term harvesting impact genetic diversity and population genetic structure? Towards an agroecological approach to crop health: reducing pest incidence through synergies between plant diversity and soil microbial ecology. Well, of course, it was only a matter of time. And the above comment also applies.

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Harvesting Solutions: How Food Systems Can Unlock Progress on Climate and Biodiversity

Food Tank

This is the first part of an articles series based on based on conversations held during COP16 (Cali) and COP29 (Baku) side events by leading food system actors, who explored solutions provided by agroecology. And efforts to make food systems more nature positive, including through agroecology, must be integral to each.

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Op-Ed | Why the World’s Food Systems Need to Transition Away from Industrial Agriculture

Food Tank

We need to rethink our food systems and transition to diversified agroecological systems that can ensure we address this twin challenge, and to provide nutritious diets to a growing population without destroying the planet. However, the country needs to scale-up agroecology and help farmers to make the transition.

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Press Release: Clinton Global Initiative Recognizes Sustainable Harvest International As a Leader in Climate Resilience

Sustainable Harvest International

New York City, New York - The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) announced a Commitment to Action by Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) at its 2023 meeting in late September. SHI was recognized as a leader in the category Climate Resilience for its expansion of carbon-negative agroforestry and other agroecology practices in Central America.

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Bringing ‘agroecological intelligence’ to on-farm technology choices

Sustainable Food Trust

A Bigger Conversation’s Director, Pat Thomas, shares insights from the ‘Agroecological Intelligence’ project, which spoke with agroecological farmers and growers to establish a criteria for adopting new technologies. But not everyone buys in to this narrative.

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When in Drought, Plan It Out: Rain Harvesting

ATTRA

However, my rain appreciation grew deeper this year after my partner John and I installed a 1,650-gallon rain harvest system at our house. A rain harvester rule of thumb is that 1 inch of rain on 1 square foot yields 0.6 These natural drip points are the easiest entry point for rain harvesting.

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Chocolate: an update on the food politics thereof

Food Politics

This also came in a e-mail, this time a press release from Chocolate Scorecard , a group that rates chocolate companies on practices related to traceability, wages, child labor, deforestation, agroecology, etc. Its key messages: Sustainability claims of chocolate companies cannot necessarily be trusted.

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